Social Impact of Environmental Issues

In recent decades, it has been recognized that environmental pollution causes serious local and global harmful effects, both to human health and ec...

For much of history, soil has played a major, and often central, role in the lives of humans. Entire societies have risen, and collapsed, through t...

In Who Will Build the Ark?, leading radical thinkers debate left alternatives to runaway global heating, capitalist crisis and wider environmental ...

Three textile roads tangle their way through Central Asia. The famous Silk Road united east and west through trade. Older still was the Wool Road, ...

One of the Financial Times' Best Economics Books of 2023 Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the cit...

WINNER OF THE INVESTIGATIVE FOOD WORK AWARD AT THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS AWARDS 2023'The most incredible book' Delia Smith'Persuasive, entertaining...

The Times Book of the Year pick'Smart, sobering, and scholarly.' - Steve Brusatte, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of Dino...

Political elites have been evading the causes of climate change through deceptive fixes. Their market-type instruments such as carbon trading aim t...

Land Art and Climate Action: Designing the 21st Century City Park highlights regenerative artworks that respond to this pivotal moment in human his...

A radical vision for a better future: an economy that works for us, rather than the other way around. As this major German bestseller reports, our ...

Your guide to becoming a green-fingered vigilante - transforming your neighbourhood's neglected corners into bright pockets of plant life.Guerrilla...

Unstoppable climate change. Extensive extinction. The breakdown of ecosystems. Mass displacement. Wars over resources. Societal collapse. The pro...

A beautiful book and the perfect Christmas present. Jamie Oliver More than just a compilation of gorgeous recipes: its a moving collecti...

Every four days there are a million more people on the planet. More people and fewer resources. In this timely work, Alan Weisman examines how we c...

In his first speech in the Senate, Bob Brown raised the threat posed by climate change. It has taken 10 years for politicians to finally begin to a...

Today, our lives are dominated by an ideology of extreme competition and individualism. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common p...

The air pollution that we breathe every day is largely invisible - but it is killing us. How did it get this bad, and how can we stop it? Far from ...

Environmental ethics is a relatively new branch of philosophy, which studies the values and principles involved in combatting environmental problem...

Focusing on so much more than plastic pollution, this ahead-of-the curve book exposes the extensive damage being done to the oceans that most of us...